I just checked to see if putting a shortcut (link) in /System32/Windows/drivers/etc/hosts would work...as expected, it does not. I'll keep hunting for a solution to this.
-Mark On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:05:26 AM UTC-5, Mark McFate wrote: > > I am by no means a systems admin, nor a networking expert, so what I’m > trying to do may be way off the mark, but let me try to describe my > situation… > > My employer recently purchased a Vagrant VMWare provider license which I’m > successfully using with VMWare Workstation 10 on a Windows 7 host using > Puppet to provision my VMs. My base VM configuration uses an Ubuntu > Precise64 box with DHCP and port forwarding. The relevant parts of my > Vagrantfile are shown below. > > ## Configure VMWare Workstation as the provider of choice. > > ## System parameters like available memory and number of CPU cores go > here. > > config.vm.provider "vmware_workstation" do |v| > > v.vmx["memsize"] = "1024" > > v.vmx["numvcpus"] = "2" > > end > > > > ## Give our guest a name. > > config.vm.host_name = "base.dg.dev" > > > > ## Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of. > > config.vm.box = "precise64_vmware" > > config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box"; > > > > ## Configure a public network adapter per DHCP. > > config.vm.network "public_network", :bridge => 'en1: Prompt Me' > > > > Ultimately *I would like to be able to address and remotely debug web > apps running on this guest VM (and other, similar guests) using the > configured vm.host_name, in this case “base.dg.dev”.* Given my limited > knowledge of networking, the only way I know of doing this currently is to > edit my windows “hosts” file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) and > insert (or update) a line like this: > > 192.168.1.58 base.dg.dev > > In the example above the address of 192.168.1.58 is the *dynamic* value > assigned to base.dg.dev VM by my router. > > While this solution seems to work nicely, I find myself making frequent > changes to the “hosts” file as my VMs move from one network environment to > another (I frequently work from home). So my question… *Is there a way > to have Vagrant modify my Windows “hosts” file automatically, or some other > technique that I’ve completely overlooked?* > > Thanks for any assistance or advice you can provide. Take care. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
